[GRASSLIST:4263] Re: Releasing GRASS modules

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:18:22AM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
> >I would like to release some GPL'd GRASS 5.3 modules
> >for spatial predictvie modelling into
> >the GRASS community. My questions are:
> >
> >1. is there a way to set up a Gmakefile so that HTML
> > manpages are merged into the GRASS documentation index?
> > The way it is right now, the HTML pages get copied into
> > the user's documentation/html directory, but there are
> > no links from the main index.html file so that the user
> > is left to point his webbrowser to the files explicitly.
> 
> No; this index is just maintained manually.

Note:
In GRASS 5.7 the index is generated automatically.
Any compile program appears in the index.

> Note that all the files in the 
> html/html directory are converted into man pages during compilation so 
> that you can read them with g.manual. This isn't done for 5.7 (although I
> wish it was), which just has html pages.

Should be no big story (g.html2man, using code from grass53/html/Gmakefile).

> >2. once other people have tried and tested the modules
> > and find them useful, is it possible to include them
> > into the 5.3 CVS, so that people will not have to
> > download the source from my homepage and have to install
> > separately?
> 
> There will be no new modules in the 5.3 CVS before the 5.4.0 release.

Do you foresee the release date?

> Do the modules use any special features of 5.3 that mean they can't be used 
> directly or easily ported to 5.7?
> 
> Perhaps if things drag on for a long time, after the 5.4.0 release the
> modules could be added to the '5.5 CVS', but CVS write access to that is
> going to be closed so you would not be able to commit bugfixes. Better to
> add them to 5.7 I think.
> 
> Paul

Markus